People

Suher Adi

Azza Ahmad

Adjunct Assistant Professor of Arabic; CMES Senior Research Scholar

Middle Eastern Languages & Cultures

Wali Ahmadi

Professor of Persian Literature

Middle Eastern Languages & Cultures

Asad Q. Ahmed

Magistretti Distinguished Professor of Middle Eastern Languages & Cultures; Professor of Arabic and Islamic Studies; Affiliate Professor of Philosophy

Middle Eastern Languages & Cultures

Zaki Alattar

Wolfgang Alders

Rama Alhabian

Assistant Professor of Arabic Literature

Middle Eastern Languages & Cultures

Heba Alnajada

Hossein Ayazi

Co-Director of Research, Senior Policy Analyst

Othering & Belonging Institute

Peter Bartu

Lecturer, Global Studies; CMES Senior Research Scholars

Mohamed Wajdi Ben Hammed

Assistant Professor of Arabic Literature and Islamic Culture

Comparative Literature

Adam Benkato

Associate Professor and Bita Daryabari Presidential Chair in Iranian Studies; CMES Senior Research Scholars

Middle Eastern Languages & Cultures

Yonatan Binyam

Assistant Professor of Ancient Mediterranean & Ethiopic Studies

Middle Eastern Languages & Cultures

Daniel Boyarin

Hermann P. and Sophia Taubman Professor Emeritus of Talmudic Culture; CMES Senior Research Scholar

Middle Eastern Languages & Cultures

Robin Buller

Tandem Postdoctoral Fellow in the History of Migration

Institute of European Studies

Joseph Cross

Assistant Professor of Hebrew Bible

Middle Eastern Languages & Cultures

Elsa El Mahdy

Arabic Language Coordinator; CMES Senior Research Scholar

Middle Eastern Languages & Cultures

Nour El Rayes

Hannah Ellis

Elsadig Elsheikh

Director of the Global Justice Program, Othering & Belonging Institute; CMES Senior Research Scholar

Othering & Belonging Institute

Brent Eng

Samera Esmeir

Associate Professor of Rhetoric; CMES Senior Research Scholar

Munis Faruqui

Associate Professor of South & Southeast Asian Studies; Director of the Center for South Asian Studies; CMES Senior Research Scholar

South and Southest Asian Studies

Keith Feldman

Associate Professor of Comparative Ethnic Studies; CMES Senior Research Scholar

Nicole Ferreira

South and Southeast Asian Studies

Mia Fuller

Associate Professor of Italian Studies; CMES Senior Research Scholar

Italian Studies

Neil Gali

Administrative Associate

Reza Ghahramani

Lecturer in Persian; CMES Senior Research Scholar

Middle Eastern Languages & Cultures

Emily Gottreich

Adjunct Professor of Global Studies and Political Economy; CMES Senior Research Scholar

International and Area Studies

Atreyee Gupta

Assistant Professor of Global Modern Art

Dalit Gvirtsman

Lecturer in Modern Hebrew

Middle Eastern Languages & Cultures

Deniz Göktürk

Professor of German; CMES Senior Research Scholar

Bruce Hall

Associate Professor of History; CMES Senior Research Scholar

Mohamed Hamed

Middle Eastern & Near Eastern Studies Librarian

Hannah Hill

Charles Hirschkind

Professor of Anthropology; CMES Senior Research Scholar

Basit Kareem Iqbal

Nora Jacobsen Ben Hammed

Assistant Professor of Islamic Studies

Middle Eastern Languages & Cultures

Abe Jellinek

Victoria Jensen

CMES Senior Research Scholar

Abhishek Kaicker

Associate Professor of History; CMES Senior Research Scholar

Ethan Katz

Associate Professor of History and Jewish Studies; Faculty Director of the Center for Jewish Studies; CMES Senior Research Scholar

Center for Jewish Studies

Asma Kazmi

Associate Professor of Art Practice; CMES Senior Research Scholar

Jenna Kemp

Lecturer in Hebrew Bible

Middle Eastern Languages & Cultures

Samiha Khalil

Assistant Professor

Riad Kherdeen

Roshanak Kheshti

Professor / Head Graduate Advisor

Theatre, Dance & Performance Studies

Sarah Klein

Anneka Lenssen

Associate Professor of Global Modern Art; CMES Senior Research Scholar

Sarah Levin

Lecturer in Jewish Studies; CMES Senior Research Scholar

Center for Jewish Studies

Rita Lucarelli

Associate Professor of Egyptology, Class of 1939 Chair in Undergraduate Education; CMES Senior Research Scholar

Middle Eastern Languages & Cultures

Lisa Maher

Associate Professor of Anthropology; CMES Senior Research Scholar

Ussama Makdisi

Chancellor's Professor of Middle East History; CMES Senior Research Scholar

Salar Mameni

Associate Professor

Maria Mavroudi

Professor of History and Ancient Greek & Roman Studies; CMES Senior Research Scholar

Ancient Greek & Roman Studies

Sanjyot Mehendale

Lecturer in Central Asian Archaeology; Chair

Middle Eastern Languages & Cultures

Tang Center for Silk Road Studies

Numata Center for Buddhist Studies

Minoo Moallem

Professor of Gender and Women's Studies; Director of Media Studies; CMES Senior Research Scholar

Gender & Women's Studies

Haitham Salah El-Din Mohamed

Lecturer in Arabic; CMES Senior Research Scholar

Middle Eastern Languages & Cultures

Sawsan Morrar

Khalid M. Mosalam

Taisei Professor of Civil Engineering; Director of the Pacific Earthquake Engineering Research Center; CMES Senior Research Scholar

Civil & Environmental Engineering

Laura Nader

Professor of Anthropology; CMES Senior Research Scholar

Dima Nasser

Assistant Professor of Arabic Literature

Middle Eastern Languages & Cultures

Rexhina Ndoci

Lecturer in Modern Greek

Middle Eastern Languages & Cultures

Anissa Ozbek

Events Coordinator

Stefania Pandolfo

Professor of Anthropology; CMES Senior Research Scholar

Laurie Pearce

Lecturer in Assyriology; CMES Senior Research Scholar

Middle Eastern Languages & Cultures

Ariana Pemberton

Christine Philliou

Professor of History; Interim Director of the Center for Middle Eastern Studies

Benjamin Porter

Associate Professor and Curator of Middle Eastern Archaeology; CMES Senior Research Scholar

Middle Eastern Languages & Cultures

Sugata Ray

Associate Professor of South and Southeast Asian Art

South & Southeast Asian Studies

Terry Regier

Professor of Linguistics and Cognitive Science; Director of the Language & Cognition Lab; CMES Senior Research Scholar

Cognitive Science

Laila Riazi

Comparative Literature

Barbara Richter

Lecturer in Egyptology; CMES Senior Research Scholar

Middle Eastern Languages & Cultures

Lubna Safi

Middle Eastern Languages & Cultures

Ahmad Rashid Salim

Middle Eastern Languages & Cultures

Maryam Sedaghatpour

Integrative Biology

Noam Shoked

Jason Silvestri

Egyptology Researcher

Middle Eastern Languages & Cultures

Francesco Spagnolo

Curator, Magnes Collection of Jewish Art and Life; Associate Adjunct Professor of Music; CMES Senior Research Scholar

Magnes Collection of Jewish Art & Life

Center for Jewish Studies

Nathan Spannaus

Executive Director, Center for Middle Eastern Studies; CMES Senior Research Scholar

Christine Theunissen

Thoraya Tlatli

Associate Professor of French; CMES Senior Research Scholar

Neyran Turan

Associate Professor of Architecture, CMES Senior Research Scholar

College of Environmental Design

Cihan Tuğal

Professor of Sociology; CMES Senior Research Scholar

Jason Vivrette

Lecturer in Turkish; CMES Senior Research Scholar

Middle Eastern Languages & Cultures

Gregory Waters

Madeline Wyse

Middle Eastern Languages & Cultures

Dariush Zahedi

Director of the AMENA Center for Building Innovation Economies in the Middle East; CMES Senior Research Scholar

Haas School of Business

Nasser Zakariya

Associate Professor of Rhetoric; CMES Senior Research Scholar